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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, June 9, 2008 Page 24 Councilmember Ihlan opined that this was an area of fiscal responsibility for the City Council; and that as a taxpayer she didn't like spending or wasting money, and was only trying to prevent that by authorizing pieces as they became neces- sary and as projects came forward. City Manager Malinen noted discussions held at a staff level, and some of the is- sues driving staff's recommendation, was that set points on Cleveland and Fair- view Avenues needed to be established from an engineering point to create eleva- tions for various development pieces at this time, and as consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Twin Lakes Master Plan guidelines. Mr. Malinen ad- vised that it was difficult to determine locations for development, and how to get from Point A to Point B without an overall layout. Mr. Malinen acknowledged that all of the infrastructure would not be constructed at one time, but assured Councilmembers that this would allow the City to be more responsive to develop- ers, no matter where their proposed location was, if that engineering work was in place; thus this recommendation by staff. Councilmember Roe noted that, as discussed earlier, things don't get less expen- sive by waiting; and questioned whether this may be more of an effort, based on expressed concerns of the residential neighborhood, to remove the possible con- nection for Twin Lakes Parkway through the neighborhood and perceived traffic impacts to those neighborhoods. However, Councilmember Roe opined, in the in- terest of obtaining the best value for taxpayer monies, supported the overall de- sign work at this time, based on the AUAR and development proposals, and po- tential for development and the reliever route of the Parkway. Councilmember Pust opined that the recommendation was for design work that would impact the entire site, not construction; and further opined that Council- member Ihlan's arguments made sense from a construction standpoint, but not a design standpoint, and that the cost-effectiveness weighs out. Klausing moved, Roe seconded, approval of a contract between the City of Rose- - ville and WSB & Associates to complete the design work for the Twin Lakes AUAR Subarea I Infrastructure Improvements; with the scope of the project de- tailed in the Request for Council Action dated June 9, 2008, for design services up to bid documents at an amount not to exceed $458,036.00; with Section V (actu- ally Section VI) Indemnification (page 1, lines 35-39) of the Consultant Ser- vices Agreement amended by City Attorney Squires to read: "Indemnification. The Consultant shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the City and its officials, agents, and employees from any loss, claim, liability, and expense (including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses of litigation) arising out of any astiee-se+~i#~iAg • [consultant's performances] of the services of this contract."